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INWARD TELEGRAM FOR REGISTRATION

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(The Secretary of State)

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D. 11 August 1967 R. 11

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Addressed to Commonwealth Office Repeated to: Peking No.513

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Your telegram No.1653.

Man Kam To.

You will by now have received my telegram No.1210. I am preparing an appreciation which I hope to despatch tomorrow morning.

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The situation on the border is in my view fundamentally unchanged. It remains tricky and tense but in no sense out of control.

3. Current B.B.C. representative here is regarded as basically a sensational journalist. I was not impressed by him at a recent press conference.

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